cinerary urn

Examples of cinerary urn in the following topics:

• Etruscan Art under the Influence of the Romans

  • Smaller cinerary urns assumed the shapes of sarcophagi during this period.
  • These urns are topped with images of the deceased lying across the lid, often in Roman dress, with relief-carved scenes of battle, violence, or Charun and Vanth.
  • The woman who reclines atop the urn wears attire more akin to that of a Roman matron than to the woman on the Sarcophagus of the Spouses.
  • Unlike the Etruscans, who buried their dead in tombs designed to mimic the appearance and comforts of private homes, the Romans practiced cremation and stored the ashes of their deceased in cinerary urns.
  • Cinerary Urn for a woman with apotropaic imagery.

• The Romans

  • The most distinctive feature of Latial culture were cinerary urns in the shape of huts.
  • This Villanovan urn likely replicates the form that pre-Roman Latin huts assumed before the mid-seventh century BCE.

• Etruscan Tombs

  • Burial urns and sarcophagi, both large and small, were used to hold the cremated remains of the dead.
  • Early forms of burial include the burial of ashes with grave goods in funerary urns and small ceramic huts .
  • Etruscan cinerary hut urn with a door.

• The New World

  • Ceramics such as this urn provide insight into the values, beliefs, and ceremonial rituals of early cultures of the Americas.

• Death

  • Art related to death is represented in sculptures, masks, carvings, and urns.

• Ceramics in Mesopotamia

  • This photograph depicts an urn that resembles today's flower vases, as well as bowls, cups, and a smaller vase.

• Etruscan Ceramics

  • The Etruscans used impasto for basic, utilitarian pottery such as storage jars and cooking pots as well as for funerary urns during the Orientalizing period.

• Art of the Bronze Age

  • The earliest identified metalworking site (Sigwells, Somerset) is much later, dated by Globular Urn style pottery to approximately the twelfth century BCE.

• French Architecture in the Northern Renaissance

  • As a whole the sculpture is based on a legend in which a hunting dog discovered a spring personified by a nymph learning against an urn.